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the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. not simply in britain and the context that had passed with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary. twist of fate. in world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the intelligence continues to rise. one of the candidates for the post of my six highest rank in british intelligence. with. technology. philby a sense to washington in nineteen forty nine to promote concepts between u.k. and u.s. secret services as a result of the soviet agent finds himself at the heart of every british and american intelligence operation during one of the most tense periods of the cold war. he is well aware of all undercover operations against countries of the socialist bloc in particular he learns about subversive plans in albania and the soviet union itself groups of seven turns were regularly airdrome to to those countries. british and americans exchange precise information about the timing and geographical coordina
the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. not simply in britain and the context that had passed with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary. twist of fate. in world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the intelligence continues to rise. one of the candidates for the post of my six highest rank in british intelligence. with. technology. philby a sense to washington in nineteen forty nine to...
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the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. not simply in britain and the context that it has with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary achievement. by a twist of fate philby's voce recommends him for an award for his services to britain during world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the intelligence officer continues to rise he becomes one of the candidates for the post of head of m i six the highest ranking british intelligence. officer is that so much given it is usually finishing up our mining mark when we cast the media middle east and beyond what is the condition of the arab spring our humanitarian interventions effective what about the war. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. philby a sense to washington in nineteen
the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. not simply in britain and the context that it has with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary achievement. by a twist of fate philby's voce recommends him for an award for his services to britain during world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the intelligence officer continues to rise he becomes one of the candidates for the post of head of m i six...
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what the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. and the conflicts that it has with people in the communist party so vast was an extraordinary achievement. by a twist of fate filled. in for an award for his services to britain during world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the intelligence officer continues to rise to become one of the candidates for the post of head of m i six the highest ranking british intelligence. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline news to report on our. philby a sense to washington in nineteen forty nine to promote concepts between u.k. and u.s. secret services as a result of the soviet agent finds himself at the heart of every british and american intelligence operation during one of the most tense periods of the cold war. he is well aware of all undercover operations against countries of the socialist bloc
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the health of the leaders of the soviet union was always shrouded in secrecy. private doctors looking after them had a very risky job with their very lives not just a careers were at stake. well a new branch of the soviet union from nine hundred sixty four to nine hundred eighty two in one thousand seventy six regime suffered clinical death. estonia and atherosclerosis died on november tenth one thousand nine hundred eighty two from heart failure. during precious reign the term trend in medicine the quote special significance the average age of the politburo as members was around eighty the country's leaders needed constant medical attention that's why doctors went through a special procedure to be selected for work at the facility. but i had been under some form of surveillance my mom died back in nineteen forty six when i was born. when i was getting a job they even wanted to know the number of my mother's grave. in his later years before brezhnev was due to appear in public doctors would give him strong drugs to help him focus even then he couldn't concentra
the health of the leaders of the soviet union was always shrouded in secrecy. private doctors looking after them had a very risky job with their very lives not just a careers were at stake. well a new branch of the soviet union from nine hundred sixty four to nine hundred eighty two in one thousand seventy six regime suffered clinical death. estonia and atherosclerosis died on november tenth one thousand nine hundred eighty two from heart failure. during precious reign the term trend in...
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the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. and the context is with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary achievement. by a twist of fate. for an award for his services to britain during world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most of the british. the career of the intelligence officer continues to rise he becomes one of the candidates for the post of my six the highest ranking british intelligence. world with. its technology innovation all these developments around russia we. covered. pushers that so much. more when we cast the media middle east and beyond what is the condition of the arab spring are humanitarian interventions effective what about. philby a sense to washington in nineteen forty nine to promote contact between u.k. and u.s. secret services as a result of the soviet agent finds himself at the heart of every british and american intelligence operation during one of the most tense periods of the cold war. is well aware of all undercover operations against countries of a socia
the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. and the context is with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary achievement. by a twist of fate. for an award for his services to britain during world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most of the british. the career of the intelligence officer continues to rise he becomes one of the candidates for the post of my six the highest ranking british intelligence. world with. its technology innovation all these...
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i mean one thousand nine percent sure that the soviet union would never have collapsed when the soviets . at the time he was appointed and through both look different from the other members of the politburo he was younger more energetic and had a high i.q. his work shuttle was filled with meetings but those closest to him knew that every day doctors used to connect to a kidney dialysis machine. but it was a cumbersome piece of equipment you know talk to colleagues were working on a miniature machine the size of a briefcase but. they did create something of that current in thing but regrettably it was too late for them to put it to use. after the collapse of the soviet union the newspaper proved to blame dr charles over and other kremlin doctors for the spate of soviet leaders deaths. when they are of treason king. it can only be surprising how many fatal contingencies the last soviet leaders had to collide with it would be interesting to know from their kind of mission chance of if the rapid health worsening of the soviet leaders would be a result of an outrageous incompetence of doctor
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up next a special story of a british double agent who spent years spying for the soviet union this is artsy. his life was shrouded in secrecy and he left a remarkable legacy. he received decorations from the spanish dictator franco and queen elizabeth of britain. he shook hands with a hitler and swiftly rose to the top of the british intelligence service. but the whole time he was in fact a soviet agent. many saw to one rebel that kim philby enigma during his life and a quarter of a century after his death is still the subject of continuing debate. the cambridge graduate realizes what's in store for him when he agrees to a go to regents park in the center of london for a secret meeting. but he couldn't even imagine how dramatically his life would change after that talk with a stranger. an economic crisis breaks out in the west in the one nine hundred thirty s. stock exchanges have collapsed erroll in the beginning of the great depression the british labor party suffer the defeat hunger marches follow on the heels of one another in britain progressive minded young people begin to sympa
up next a special story of a british double agent who spent years spying for the soviet union this is artsy. his life was shrouded in secrecy and he left a remarkable legacy. he received decorations from the spanish dictator franco and queen elizabeth of britain. he shook hands with a hitler and swiftly rose to the top of the british intelligence service. but the whole time he was in fact a soviet agent. many saw to one rebel that kim philby enigma during his life and a quarter of a century...
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since it was rotten at the core, the soviet union had to collapse. so says this argument. but then you begin to wonder just why did it have to collapse? history is replete with poor countries that either stay poor or get poorer, yet which do not undergo systematic revolution. and especially not a peaceful abandonment of the empire. the turkish and russian empires were poor and got poorer over several centuries. yet only the calamity of world war i brought a violent end to those empires. to assert the inevitability of the soviet breakup is simple minded. it leaves out people in that era. to summon this chatters class, there is room for a portrait in that historic -- there is room for a face in that historic portrait of the era. that face is of mikhail gorbachev. now, mind you, gorbachev deserves some of the credit. no doubt about that. but at some point, amidst all the adulation heaped on mikhail gorbachev, someone should apply the simple question posed on any leader in history. that question is, did that leader achieve her or his goals? let's apply it here. on march 11, 19
since it was rotten at the core, the soviet union had to collapse. so says this argument. but then you begin to wonder just why did it have to collapse? history is replete with poor countries that either stay poor or get poorer, yet which do not undergo systematic revolution. and especially not a peaceful abandonment of the empire. the turkish and russian empires were poor and got poorer over several centuries. yet only the calamity of world war i brought a violent end to those empires. to...
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what the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary. twist of fate. philby a sense to washington in one thousand nine hundred forty nine to promote contact between u.k. and u.s. secret services as a result of the soviet agent finds himself at the heart of every british and american intelligence operation during one of the most tense periods of the cold war. he is well aware of all undercover operations against countries of a socialist bloc in particular he learns about subversive plans in albania and the soviet union itself groups of seven terms were regularly dropped into those countries. british and american exchange precise information about the timing and geographical coordinates of their operations i do not know what happened to those groups but i can make an informed guess. the biggest breakthrough by far of american intelligence during the period where. russian. wartime soviet codes. kim philby looks on as the americans pinpoint the source leaking intelligence about
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each of the soviet union and the peoples republic of china accused the other of being bad communists and they became rivals for supremacy in the third world, for example, and so it was very unpleasant. by the end of the 1960s it was more than unpleasant, it actually had potential for a major conflict. soviets started moving troops out to the common borders and they moved bombers out which were capable of carrying nuclear warheads and there were armed clashes between soviet and chinese troops in 1969 and towards the end of 1969, the fall of 1969, there were rumors and well-founded rumors that the soviet union was contemplated a nuclear strike on china tokn a . >> did china have nuclear power? >> yes, they did. they exploded a nuclear bomb in 1964 but they didn't have nearly the means of delivery that the soviet union had. soviet union was much the greater military power, had left china very badly prepared to fight off a potential invasion. the armed forces occupied most of them in trying to keep order in the cities. and china was friendless and in a very dangerous position at the end
each of the soviet union and the peoples republic of china accused the other of being bad communists and they became rivals for supremacy in the third world, for example, and so it was very unpleasant. by the end of the 1960s it was more than unpleasant, it actually had potential for a major conflict. soviets started moving troops out to the common borders and they moved bombers out which were capable of carrying nuclear warheads and there were armed clashes between soviet and chinese troops in...
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i got new information after the collapse of the soviet union in one hundred ninety one above all how fast our country moved you know to stay and find a replacement enemy to keep the military industrial complex functioning to serve the vested interests in the cold war system i was appalled by this i believe that we should have had after the collapse of the soviet union and eliminated any basis for this global apparatus there was no further reason for it it was irrelevant. instead they moved at once to find another enemy china. terrorism. drug lords even instability anything to keep it going we need an enemy it's like we were a football team and we'll be in prophecy to play a game we learn certain plays and now we don't have any opponents no how can we play this game anymore and so they needed a new enemy and a new enemy will for a while there was drugs we had a war on drugs we then became terrorism and that was a very good substitute in the minds of our leaders sometimes her brain a big think sometimes they're afraid a very little one but not of something else about you know that i do
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i never saw it in the soviet union. if these people are turning loose, watch out. >> so mike, watching this hour, you see very early sort of the beginnings of this cat and mouse game between the press and the chinese government which continues in different ways. this must have been rather familiar territory for you. >> i first went to china in 1973. the cat and mouse part of it and the -- you get to see the show commune and the -- i went to a hospital on my 73rd trip and we saw the accupuncture and anesthesia. this was the first big exposure of that kind of very tightly controlled showcase tourism that became the main stay of what a lot of what they did. part of the story is this interaction with the system and this pushing and pushing and pushing back and in fairness in many ways it's night and day. today for all of the problems. i think the quote and they had no idea what would hit them. they never have and all the most powerful people. the collection of nixon and people like william f buckley. significant figures wan
i never saw it in the soviet union. if these people are turning loose, watch out. >> so mike, watching this hour, you see very early sort of the beginnings of this cat and mouse game between the press and the chinese government which continues in different ways. this must have been rather familiar territory for you. >> i first went to china in 1973. the cat and mouse part of it and the -- you get to see the show commune and the -- i went to a hospital on my 73rd trip and we saw the...
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>> guest: i was calculating he was born 13 years before the soviet union was created. he lived for another 13, 14 years after the soviet union collapsed, so his life did brackett the whole existence of the soviet union in that sense, and i think it's fair to say that as far as american foreign policy is concerned, his ideas back to the whole purpose because the fundamental idea of containment, which is that you can deal with this adversary about appeasing it on the one hand and without having a war on the other hand. it seems to me that was the central idea of the american foreign policy towards the soviet union. part of the difficulty for me in the book was to explain why given the fact that his strategy was adopted and was carried through by the successive administrations over 45 years why was he constantly so depressed about the privacy critical of the performance of the united states? and the world affairs and of his own successors in the policy-making positions? >> he does have a tendency as you document extensively in the book to partial lies foreign policy he ha
>> guest: i was calculating he was born 13 years before the soviet union was created. he lived for another 13, 14 years after the soviet union collapsed, so his life did brackett the whole existence of the soviet union in that sense, and i think it's fair to say that as far as american foreign policy is concerned, his ideas back to the whole purpose because the fundamental idea of containment, which is that you can deal with this adversary about appeasing it on the one hand and without...
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but after the soviet union collapsed and so forth, the relationship had to survive these great blows to the relationship. and did so on the basis of the people-to-people contacts to which he and nixon relegated to the state department. anyway, i think he would have been astonished at the size of the relationship and quite delighted with the role that he played in starting it all. >> i think it would be fair to say that all four of us, given our experience in china in the early and mid '70s are astonished by what's happened in china. another question. right here? >> you mentioned a little bit earlier about your visit to the cia to sort of get some background work before going on the trip. i was just wondering to the extent that you can say, what sorts of documents or media that you consumed to prepare you for what you might encounter? how did you come to understand the culture, the geography, the manners? anything? what sorts of things did you consult for study before you went over? >> i'd be curious to know, too, max, if you feel the cia had it right or how did they have it when you
but after the soviet union collapsed and so forth, the relationship had to survive these great blows to the relationship. and did so on the basis of the people-to-people contacts to which he and nixon relegated to the state department. anyway, i think he would have been astonished at the size of the relationship and quite delighted with the role that he played in starting it all. >> i think it would be fair to say that all four of us, given our experience in china in the early and mid...
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he was born 13 years before the soviet union was created. he lived for another 13 or 14 years after the soviet union collapsed. so his life related racket the whole existence of the soviet union in that sense. and i think it's fair to say as far as american foreign policy is concerned, his ideas practicable. because it's a fundamentally to contain the comment that you can do with this adversary without appeasing it on one hand and without having awarded the other hand if there was a third way. it seems to me that was the central idea of american foreign policy towards the soviet union. so part of the paradox of difficulty for me in this book was to explain why, given the fact that his strategy was set up to it and was carried through by successive administrations over 45 years, why was the costliest so depressed and so critical of the performance that the united states and world affairs and of his son successors in the policymaking decisions? >> host: he does have a tendency of the document extensively in the book to personally foreign polic
he was born 13 years before the soviet union was created. he lived for another 13 or 14 years after the soviet union collapsed. so his life related racket the whole existence of the soviet union in that sense. and i think it's fair to say as far as american foreign policy is concerned, his ideas practicable. because it's a fundamentally to contain the comment that you can do with this adversary without appeasing it on one hand and without having awarded the other hand if there was a third way....
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but such devices, the soviet union turned its neighboring states into satellites. political and economic puppets. in china, political action was cruder, but no less effective. here it was political action by congress. and so overwhelming as this political conquest had been that the communists had been able to propel red china to major influence in the eastern world. the political force method include the suppression of a cy un under communist rule. there was revolution without help from the outside. in east germany in 1953, poland in 1956. hungary in the same year. and tibet in 1959. all of them brutally suppressed. finally, there's the international communist party, dedicated to the overthrow of every still government. for the political method may not prevail, there's always the economic method. >> i'm frank mcgee. let's consider for a moment this matter of the communist use of economic methods to achieve conquest and how it's done. the present masters of the soviet union have said to us peaceful coexistence until we bury you. they propose to officiate that by cat
but such devices, the soviet union turned its neighboring states into satellites. political and economic puppets. in china, political action was cruder, but no less effective. here it was political action by congress. and so overwhelming as this political conquest had been that the communists had been able to propel red china to major influence in the eastern world. the political force method include the suppression of a cy un under communist rule. there was revolution without help from the...
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along with margaret thatcher what was going on in the soviet union when ayatollah khomeini was on the rise in iran. that's not a criticism of kissinger per say, and it isn't animus' as far as i know on his part towards religion. a desalt position that isn't. i think we can no longer conclude that religion is something we shouldn't be engaging on in the diplomatic policy. is it christian centric? >> that's a good question. the perception is the answer is yes. out there in the muslim world, the perception among some here in the united states, it's not true enough. that is a blueprint for this. it doesn't mention any religion, yet they do for all people, and of course. everybody has strong feelings about it, and christianity is proselyting michigan. it does nothing to grapple with. you have to take industry but the idea is not to make the world safe for the christian missionaries, it is to focus on the religious liberty as a constituent a limit of human dignity can societies in the politics. it is something that can be talked about and implemented your respective of the demography is to
along with margaret thatcher what was going on in the soviet union when ayatollah khomeini was on the rise in iran. that's not a criticism of kissinger per say, and it isn't animus' as far as i know on his part towards religion. a desalt position that isn't. i think we can no longer conclude that religion is something we shouldn't be engaging on in the diplomatic policy. is it christian centric? >> that's a good question. the perception is the answer is yes. out there in the muslim world,...
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whole existence of the soviet union in that sense. and i think it's fair to say as far as american foreign policy is concerned his ideas bracketed that whole period because it's a bundle mental idea of containment which is you can deal with this adversary without having a war and there was a third way. it seems to me that was the central idea of american foreign policy towards the soviet union throughout this period. what it meant specifically for me in this book was to explain why given the fact that his strategy was carried through by successive administrations over 45 years, why was he constantly so depressed and why was he constantly so critical of the performance of the united states and world affairs and of his own successors in policymaking positions? >> host: he does have a tendency as you document fairly extensively in your book, to personalize foreign-policy, you know for example as you write, he had a huge fondness for john f. kennedy arguably because kennedy was nice to him. he went out of his way. where is of course he's
whole existence of the soviet union in that sense. and i think it's fair to say as far as american foreign policy is concerned his ideas bracketed that whole period because it's a bundle mental idea of containment which is you can deal with this adversary without having a war and there was a third way. it seems to me that was the central idea of american foreign policy towards the soviet union throughout this period. what it meant specifically for me in this book was to explain why given the...
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it was the cold war, and then the soviet union collapsed. communism -- soviet union imploded. communism collapsed. the wall came down, and we were in a unipolar world. the united states was the only superpower out there, and everybody wanted to get close to uncle whiskers, and i was secretary of state at the time. my job was a hell of a lot easier because everybody wanted to get close to the only remaining superpower. and so we got a lot of things done. what did we do? we were able to preside over a peaceful end to the cold war. the cold war didn't have to end becausefully. it could have ended with a bang instead of a whimper. we had the first gulf war where we kicked iraq out of kuwait with really minimal casualties, and by the way, we got other countries to pay for it. we had the madrid peace conference where israel and all of her arab neighbors sat down face-to-face to talk peace for the first time. we had the unification of germany and a lot of things happened. you asked me what the toughest challenge was. trying to figure out -- i really believe this, trying to figure out
it was the cold war, and then the soviet union collapsed. communism -- soviet union imploded. communism collapsed. the wall came down, and we were in a unipolar world. the united states was the only superpower out there, and everybody wanted to get close to uncle whiskers, and i was secretary of state at the time. my job was a hell of a lot easier because everybody wanted to get close to the only remaining superpower. and so we got a lot of things done. what did we do? we were able to preside...
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it was part of the rivalry between the united states and soviet union. by the time the two nations were done distributing the uranium, ten tons of it were distributed round the world. we are trying to roll up the highly-enriched uranium to get it secured and blend it down as senator nunn just said. it does not take a lot of bomb grade highly-enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon. i'm sorry not to read more specific questions. i will in a minute read one. quite a few of them deal with the question of our present nuclear arsenal and the russian nuclear arsenal. the whole question of nuclear deterrents, which is something these men have spent a lifetime thinking about, working on and continue to work on it today. and the question that kind of captures this, i think, comes from the audience. it goes as follows, "robert mcnamara said 100 nuclear weapons is enough for u.s. deterrents." do you agree? if so, why do we still have thousands? so, secretary perry, do you want to tackle that first? >> yes, i do agree that 100 is enough for deterrents provided the
it was part of the rivalry between the united states and soviet union. by the time the two nations were done distributing the uranium, ten tons of it were distributed round the world. we are trying to roll up the highly-enriched uranium to get it secured and blend it down as senator nunn just said. it does not take a lot of bomb grade highly-enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon. i'm sorry not to read more specific questions. i will in a minute read one. quite a few of them deal with the...
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union but it's very interesting here is that even before this election started on sunday today some opposition forces have had already started preparing for a protest action on march the fifth monday and that is certainly in their opinion they would protest anyway even despite the makings of a very transparent election that is we've been seeing we've been promised and what we've been seeing in the run up to this vote today on sunday yes you mentioned transparency has been done to make. it. certainly the web cameras which have been installed at every single polling station across the country is a major breakthrough the ballot boxes themselves. see through so we can see what exactly falls into those ballot boxes this is something also very new for russia and this election is definitely the most expensive one because the installing web cameras alone cost around health a billion u.s. dollars and this initiative was put forward personally by also we understand that every single russian citizen may become an observer at the election and in fact a very good friend of mine have been tweetin
union but it's very interesting here is that even before this election started on sunday today some opposition forces have had already started preparing for a protest action on march the fifth monday and that is certainly in their opinion they would protest anyway even despite the makings of a very transparent election that is we've been seeing we've been promised and what we've been seeing in the run up to this vote today on sunday yes you mentioned transparency has been done to make. it....
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the largest movement that russia has seen since the collapse of the soviet union i definitely this whole situation with so many people directing their anger at the prime minister urging him to resign to change the power in the country could not go unnoticed a certain a democratic dialogue has been established between the authorities and those in the streets something definitely very interesting because. we haven't seen anything like that for the past two decades since russia became a different state on the soviet union russia is changing as many say and corrals an economist from the principle asset management group is one of the people who believe in that. the fundamental problem is russia needs an opposition even needs serious loyal constructive opposition and for twenty years there hasn't been one i mean i remember the yeltsin years the opposition was fairly prophetic and right now it is it's not much better so it's still going to be putin for the probably the next six years russia needs to modernize but it's going to be a slow process and what mr putin keeps saying this gradually we'r
the largest movement that russia has seen since the collapse of the soviet union i definitely this whole situation with so many people directing their anger at the prime minister urging him to resign to change the power in the country could not go unnoticed a certain a democratic dialogue has been established between the authorities and those in the streets something definitely very interesting because. we haven't seen anything like that for the past two decades since russia became a different...
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it was part of the arrivel al re between the united states and soviet union. by the time the two nations were done distributing this highly enriched uranium, ten tons of it had been distributed around the world to literally dozens of nations. and we're now working frantically to try to roll up that highly enriched uranium and get it secured and then blended down as senator nunn just said, because it does not take a lot of bomb grade, highly enriched uranium to make a crude but powerful nuclear weapon. a number of the questions, and i'm sorry, not to read more specific questions, but i will in a minute read one. quite a few of them deal with the question of our present nuclear arsenal, and the russian nuclear arsenal and the whole question of nuclear deterrence. which is something these men have spent a lifetime thinking about, working on, and continue to work on it today. and the question -- one of the questions that kind of captures this, i think, comes from the audience. and it goes as follows. robert mcnamara said 100 nuclear weapons is enough for u.s. dete
it was part of the arrivel al re between the united states and soviet union. by the time the two nations were done distributing this highly enriched uranium, ten tons of it had been distributed around the world to literally dozens of nations. and we're now working frantically to try to roll up that highly enriched uranium and get it secured and then blended down as senator nunn just said, because it does not take a lot of bomb grade, highly enriched uranium to make a crude but powerful nuclear...
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of the complaints also running in every single presidential election ever since the collapse of the soviet union he's eccentric certainly and he certainly has some chance of making it into the second round runoff should it happen another candidate is the leader of the fair russia party something that all of also quite frequent he has been running in every single election but still he participated in the two thousand and four election as far as i can remember and he used to be head of the upper house of the russian parliament and also we have russian tycoon mikhail prokhorov somewhat of a dark horse in this particular presidential campaign he's a newcomer to politics and it's the first time he's running as president also seen by many experts says the most as one of the likely candidates to make it into the second round runoff should it happen in fact it's the main intrigue of this presidential race whether it would be able to garner more than fifty percent of the votes that is in fact fifty percent plus one vote and thus gain
of the complaints also running in every single presidential election ever since the collapse of the soviet union he's eccentric certainly and he certainly has some chance of making it into the second round runoff should it happen another candidate is the leader of the fair russia party something that all of also quite frequent he has been running in every single election but still he participated in the two thousand and four election as far as i can remember and he used to be head of the upper...
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and the next day, the guy was kicked out from the soviet union. years later, as i say, i was in the united states. and i decided to try to revive the relationship. they say he was a senior figure in the united states and journalist. i call him and say, best regards from your old friends in moscow. and i reminded some of the guys. he said, if you call again, i'll call the fbi. that was the end of it. as i said, we had over 300 as i mentioned sources. socialism or communism as a future of humanity. and i myself, when i graduated from high school in 1952, i was a stalinist. i mean, stalin was alive. he was a great victorious leader. when he passed away march 5th of 1953, i was in training at that time -- well, foreign languages,
and the next day, the guy was kicked out from the soviet union. years later, as i say, i was in the united states. and i decided to try to revive the relationship. they say he was a senior figure in the united states and journalist. i call him and say, best regards from your old friends in moscow. and i reminded some of the guys. he said, if you call again, i'll call the fbi. that was the end of it. as i said, we had over 300 as i mentioned sources. socialism or communism as a future of...
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october 1957: the soviet union makes history with the launch ofsputnik... radio announcer: a new moon is in the sky... the world's first man-made satellite. [ electronic beeping ] you are hearing the actual signals transmitted by the earth-circling satellite. for many scientists in the united states, the sound ofsputnik is the sound of their own failure in the space race. nasa vows to strike back with a first of its own. on august 12, 1960, the world's first communication satellite is dispatched into space to bounce radio signals from earth back down again. eisenhower over radio: this is president eisenhower speaking. it is a great personal satisfaction to participate in this first experiment in communication known as echo. now one man thinks he has an artifact from this turning point in the space race. i never thought i'd get a piece of space history in the mail. i'm tukufu zuberi, and i'm making my way to beverly hills, florida, to meet chuck roedel. chuck is a longtime amateur radio operator... this is wa2mxr, whiskey alpha two mike x-ray romeo. and he's
october 1957: the soviet union makes history with the launch ofsputnik... radio announcer: a new moon is in the sky... the world's first man-made satellite. [ electronic beeping ] you are hearing the actual signals transmitted by the earth-circling satellite. for many scientists in the united states, the sound ofsputnik is the sound of their own failure in the space race. nasa vows to strike back with a first of its own. on august 12, 1960, the world's first communication satellite is...
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policymakers were blindsided by the fall of the soviet union due to a failure of intelligence. when you arrived you were given a booklet. on the back page of that booklet you'll find a dvd. that dvd contains all of the declassified documents from today's event. it also contains a variety of videos that were produced for president reagan, photographs, maps and a variety of other things. it is a treasure trove of information, and i highly recommend that you look at it when you have the chance. now, before i get 1,000 calls back in washington that it doesn't work, the dvd is designed for your computer and not the dvd player attached to your television. [ laughter ] >> so i'm excited to hear the fantastic speakers we lined up for today. so i want to close. but before i do that i want to recognize a couple of current and former senior cia officers who are in attendance today. peter clement, our deputy director for intelligence is here. you'll hear from him here on the podium shortly. jeanne teisinger our chief information officer is with us today. without her leadership events like
policymakers were blindsided by the fall of the soviet union due to a failure of intelligence. when you arrived you were given a booklet. on the back page of that booklet you'll find a dvd. that dvd contains all of the declassified documents from today's event. it also contains a variety of videos that were produced for president reagan, photographs, maps and a variety of other things. it is a treasure trove of information, and i highly recommend that you look at it when you have the chance....
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we had operated under the analytical assumption that china and the soviet union were a united bloc, which was crazy. it was wrong. so much evidence that that was not so. and what nixon was doing was taking advantage for the first time in policy terms of the sino-soviet difficulties, sino-soviet split. and it completely changed the way the dynamics of international politics went. >> and how did the trip itself, max and nick, change your minds? when you landed there, you were of one frame of mind. what frame of mind were you in when you left? >> well, when i left, i was still pinching myself. but i had come -- even in this strange bubble that we were in, no contact with the chinese other than our own particular minders, we had spent our time talking about sort of the nuts and bolts of a relationship to come, trade, travel, investment, legal issues, sports, culture, et cetera, et cetera. all of which ultimately became the relationship, after the triangular diplomacy came to an end. but my distinct memory, people asked me when i came back, what did you learn that you didn't know before? and i
we had operated under the analytical assumption that china and the soviet union were a united bloc, which was crazy. it was wrong. so much evidence that that was not so. and what nixon was doing was taking advantage for the first time in policy terms of the sino-soviet difficulties, sino-soviet split. and it completely changed the way the dynamics of international politics went. >> and how did the trip itself, max and nick, change your minds? when you landed there, you were of one frame...
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and more than twenty years of intelligence service in profits of the soviet union. feel these choices on forty. well or you can feel the story in just over an hour here on our fourth adds we'll take a look what's happening in business we're crossing to you it's our show the ask is get all the latest on what's happening. while gold the doom and gloom coming out of europe many investors really saw of china as the save haven but now we see some bad news coming out of china as well over the weekend it reported trade deficit of more than thirty one billion dollars that china is a large just in a decade and definitely bigger than most analysts expected the good news is that we saw some growth in imports they jumped by almost forty percent which is the strongest growth in more than a year but that failed to convince investors let's see how the indices are performing this hour and actually as you can see the hang seng in hong kong has bounced back after being in the red for most of the day in tokyo the nikkei ended the trading session in the red. and the european indices ar
and more than twenty years of intelligence service in profits of the soviet union. feel these choices on forty. well or you can feel the story in just over an hour here on our fourth adds we'll take a look what's happening in business we're crossing to you it's our show the ask is get all the latest on what's happening. while gold the doom and gloom coming out of europe many investors really saw of china as the save haven but now we see some bad news coming out of china as well over the weekend...
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from the power of the soviet union and from the economic interests also the former soviet union and therefore they need someone to actually be preserved some of these interests that are left around the world and also in the mideast. ok six year old said oh money shall be a trophy a large pile weekly lie from beirut much appreciated you saw some live pictures there let's just see if we can bring about you just a second or something over our shoulder monash nice way that protrusion rally that kicked off about fifteen minutes ago we go tonight ten to eight pm most folks i don't get it must be remembered it's a monday floored me working day some of these protests were a little bit slow to kickoff because i guess people take over would get changed come out eccentrics cetera life went on as normal we're hearing now from the authorities little boy is as big as last night yet around about ten thousand people look out of there at the moment i'm looking over my shoulder there's quite a lot going on over there like popcorn so that's the noise you can hear at the moment the shoulder where most you know y
from the power of the soviet union and from the economic interests also the former soviet union and therefore they need someone to actually be preserved some of these interests that are left around the world and also in the mideast. ok six year old said oh money shall be a trophy a large pile weekly lie from beirut much appreciated you saw some live pictures there let's just see if we can bring about you just a second or something over our shoulder monash nice way that protrusion rally that...
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here's where it comes in, the aid from china and soviet union. the communist regime in china is particularly helpful. and ho made a good effort to cultivate a special relationship with mao tse-tung, and he usually consulted the chinese about every major decision having to do with the war. now, the chinese, they didn't want to see the u.s. establish in south vietnam either. they looked at vietnam in many respects like they did korea. to them, south korea was a place for american bases. well, north korea -- excuse me, south vietnam was in their mind as well. it's like taiwan where the americans, maybe they could build bases. they didn't like that. north vietnam in the late '60s, the chinese gave lots of help to the north vietnamese. for example, this were 80,000 chinese workers that were building roads and railroads in north vietnam during rolling thunder. and this was pivotal because the north, this chinese help is pivotal. the north has little help of convincing the u.s. to negotiate or u.s. to leave just with its own resources. by the mid-1960s,
here's where it comes in, the aid from china and soviet union. the communist regime in china is particularly helpful. and ho made a good effort to cultivate a special relationship with mao tse-tung, and he usually consulted the chinese about every major decision having to do with the war. now, the chinese, they didn't want to see the u.s. establish in south vietnam either. they looked at vietnam in many respects like they did korea. to them, south korea was a place for american bases. well,...
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so win it he went to the soviet union and realize the country of his dreams did not match up with his reality, rather than come home as some eight ideological tourists have done to proclaim the soviet union, will came back after months and the soviet union to tell the fellow leftists this ticket to prison, they did not like this there would not publish the articles in "harper's" or the land take, they said don't dare publish a book on this. the apostate historian because they have the high-density to write the history of the world greco his ph.d. was in full loss of the. worse than adding his wife she had not graduated from college. historians did not look kindly upon this. this is when historian zero more and more he was a general list. and this is the time of the proverbial historian with the handicapped was bn in the fiji islands. it was that narrow. >> historians did not care for that. >> but he always marched to the beat of his own drummer. someone who did his own thing. looking at a snapshot he is damaging himself. over the long haul, this was a good thing. everyone found a way
so win it he went to the soviet union and realize the country of his dreams did not match up with his reality, rather than come home as some eight ideological tourists have done to proclaim the soviet union, will came back after months and the soviet union to tell the fellow leftists this ticket to prison, they did not like this there would not publish the articles in "harper's" or the land take, they said don't dare publish a book on this. the apostate historian because they have the...
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but there really is a financial relationship within the former republic of the soviet union. big article they will try to rush through interest shared with the international financial institutions world bank. i.m.f. the liberal development banks and my beloved story about the. g. twenty g. eight different other economic and financial collapse it is an existent in the world tell me about the g. twenty you personally took part in the g. twenty meeting of finance ministers in mexico right now so will the g twenty summit that we're there that will take place soon will it take some important steps in reforming world financial institutions later this year. you see each year. it's just happened each year g twenty. discuss a number of police shows were important one but a man and a number of issues all with one is the most important for these year the most important issue is the increase in the financial capacity of our international monetary fund. this is. a decision need to be taken by the g. twenty nations the process of preparing right decisions and writing agreements but will al
but there really is a financial relationship within the former republic of the soviet union. big article they will try to rush through interest shared with the international financial institutions world bank. i.m.f. the liberal development banks and my beloved story about the. g. twenty g. eight different other economic and financial collapse it is an existent in the world tell me about the g. twenty you personally took part in the g. twenty meeting of finance ministers in mexico right now so...